Could Microplastics Be Affecting The Climate?

By William Teach November 21, 2024 – 7:15 am

This is one of those “we’re not quite sure, we’ll throw it out there” articles, but, it is the kind of environmental articles that actually interests me and doesn’t cause derision for the climate cult, because I do have a problem with plastics and especially microplastics, which are bad for the environment

Microplastics could be affecting the weather, new study shows

Microplastics have already been found in the remotest parts of the world, including Antarctica – and a new study suggests they could be affecting the weather.

Microplastics, which are formed when plastic in the environment breaks down into tiny particles, have also been found in plant roots and human organs – and now scientists believe they could be affecting how clouds form.

The finding could mean that plastic pollution may influence rainfall, potentially worsen climate change – and even pose risks to planes. The new Penn State research builds on previous studies, which showed that microplastics affected clouds.

The study showed that microplastics help ice crystals form inside clouds by acting as ‘ice nucleating particles’, the researchers say.

Using four common plastics, the researchers simulated water droplets freezing inside a cloud. They found that droplets with microplastic particles froze at temperatures 5 to 10 C higher than droplets without plastic pollution.

So, not only are microplastics bad for the environment and life, but, they could be creating snow and rain at higher temperatures than normal, which is exactly along the lines of me saying that mankind is not blameless in climatic changes. The question is, how much? How much more rain and snow is this causing?

In general, clouds cool the Earth by reflecting solar radiation, but certain clouds at certain altitudes can have a warming effect by helping to trap energy emitted from the Earth.

I would like to see more research into this. And more action in reducing microplastics.

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Texas Offers Land For Feds To Use To Deport Illegals

By William Teach November 21, 2024 – 7:00 am

If Democrats fail to see that Team Trump has rock solid plans to boot out huge numbers of illegals, as well as creating the conditions where the number of illegals coming to the US plummet, then they aren’t paying attention. They think everyone who doesn’t vote their way is dumb. They’re about to get a master class

Texas offers Trump land on US-Mexico border for potential mass deportations

Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.

The property, which Texas originally purchased last month, is located in rural Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley. Republican Dawn Buckingham, the Texas Land Commissioner, sent a letter Nov. 14 to Trump extending the offer.

“We do hear through back channels that they are taking a look at it and considering it. But we just want them to know we’re a good partner. We’re here. We want to be helpful,” Buckingham told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.

The property has no paved roads and sits in a county with one public hospital and limited local resources. But Buckingham stressed its location.

“We feel like this is actually very well-located. The land is very flat there. It’s adjacent to major airports. It’s also adjacent to a bridge over the river,” Buckingham said. “So if it’s helpful, then I would love to partner up with the federal government. And if it’s not, then we’ll continue to look to ways to be helpful to them.”

What’s the point of this land?

“By offering this newly-acquired 1400-acre property to the incoming Trump Administration for the construction of a facility for the processing, detention, and coordination of what will be the largest deportation of violent criminals in our nation’s history, I stand united with President Donald Trump to ensure American families are protected,” Buckingham said in an earlier statement.

That’s the point. Capture them, detain them, sit them in front of a judge quickly who will look at their records and say “you are not eligible for asylum, goodbye,” and boot them out. Team Trump should also look at federal land in the west which is just desolate, nothing there, to build detention centers for those coming and are here who are declaring asylum, a place to hold them till they get their hearing.

That’s who Democrats are protecting. Murderers. Gang members who the Biden-Harris administration failed to vet at all.

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Early Winter Weather Hitting West Coast Is, To Be Clear, Your Fault

By William Teach November 20, 2024 – 2:58 pm

No matter the weather, the blame is always on you. Even if it is early Bad Winter Weather

Let’s look at that Axios screed

The West Coast is facing a long-lasting heavy rain event from a bomb cyclone that formed in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Tuesday, and which could lead to significant flooding.

Threat level: The rapidly intensifying storm that is directing a strong atmospheric river at southwestern Oregon and Northern California brought hurricane-force winds to parts of Oregon, Washington and Canada late Tuesday, causing widespread power outages. At least one person has died. (snip to near the end)

Context: Human-caused climate change is causing atmospheric rivers to carry more moisture and making them capable of producing more rain and snow.

  • One 2022 study found that atmospheric rivers that hit California in 2017 were up to 15% wetter due to human-caused climate change.
  • Other recent studies show future atmospheric river events may heighten this trend.
  • Warmer air and ocean temperatures add more water vapor to the atmosphere, which storms can ingest and wring out over land.

But, do we know that this is different from previous Holocene warm periods? How much past data is there? Sorry, sorry, I forgot that cults do not need scientific proof.

And there are plenty of tweets linking winter weather that’s early to Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles. Cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 20, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike in a world turning to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on criminal justice reform in the Democrat run city of Chicago.

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Commerce Looking To Quickly Spend All The CHIPS Act Money Before Trump Or Something

By William Teach November 20, 2024 – 10:30 am

I’m not sure why the focus is on Trump: has he stated that he would stop the CHIPS Act? Making chips in the U.S. would seem something that Trump would want. But, you know, TDS

Raimondo’s new mission: Leave no cash for Trump

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is on an urgent mission: get as much high-tech spending out the door before Donald Trump takes office.

The Biden administration is aiming to commit nearly every unspent dollar in its $50 billion microchip-subsidy program before President-elect Donald Trump takes over in January, an effort that would effectively cement a massive industrial legacy before the GOP can reverse course.

“I’d like to have really almost all of the money obligated by the time we leave,” Raimondo said in an interview with POLITICO. “That’s the goal, and I certainly want to have all the major announcements done as it relates to the big, leading-edge companies.” (snip)

The Chips money alone is a massive undertaking. Congress allocated $50 billion in subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing and R&D. So far only two companies have received binding awards from the Department of Commerce’s manufacturing program. To hit her target, Raimondo still needs to nail down contracts with Intel, Micron, Samsung and SK hynix — multibillion-dollar deals that have, at times, been rocky and required renegotiations.

Raimondo said she recently directed staff to work through the weekend — and even made personal calls to tech CEOs — to speed the talks along.

Perhaps Raimondo should have thought about this beforehand. The CHIPS Act passed on August 9, 2022. What has she been doing since? It took them till February 2023 to listen to proposals. Wasn’t the whole point of the CHIPS Act to get manufacturing up quickly, since there was a big chip shortage worldwide post-COVID? Anyhow, nothing in that Politico piece says why they have to do this quickly Because Trump

Biden locks in $6.6B for TSMC chip factories, ensuring Trump can’t rescind CHIPS Act deal

The Biden administration has finalized a $6.6 billion award for the Taiwan semiconductor giant that is building massive factories in Phoenix, amid concerns President-elect Donald Trump will derail subsidies aimed at fostering the domestic chip industry.

“This is a gigantic announcement,” Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo told reporters on a call ahead of the announcement early Friday, 10 days after Trump’s election.

“This will be one of the most important investments that we make as a country to advance our economic and national security,” she said.

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to invest $65 billion on three state-of-the-art fabrication plants, or fabs, that mean thousands of jobs in Arizona.

But

In June, Trump rattled investors when he accused Taiwan of stealing the U.S. chip industry and asserted the U.S. shouldn’t be “giving them billions of dollars to build chips.”

“That CHIPS deal is so bad,” he said Oct. 25 on the Joe Rogan podcast.

He wants the money to go to U.S. companies. But, also remember that Trump tends to rattle on. Rep Mike Johnson also mentioned repealing the CHIPS Act, but, he was quickly shot down, because it is a good thing.

Now, the question is, how many bad deals will Commerce make? Perhaps Raimondo should speak directly to Trump to ascertain his thoughts on this. Will his admin continue to make good deals on this? If so, slow down.

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Warmists Have Wonderful New Ideas To Implement Climate Taxes

By William Teach November 20, 2024 – 7:00 am

Rather than give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral, they’d prefer to share the misery of their doomsday cult

These new taxes could help fight climate change

The COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan aim to agree on an annual finance target of $1 trillion or more a year to help poorer countries respond to global warming. Some see new taxes as one way to get there.

The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force (GSLT), led by France, Barbados and Kenya, is exploring the issue. Below are extracts from its latest report on the options being discussed and estimates about how much could be raised.

Shipping
The levy that could be closest to being agreed is for shipping, responsible for around 3% of global emissions, with governments set to debate a series of measures at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization in April.

Aviation
Aviation accounts for 2% of global emissions yet is usually free of value-added tax (VAT) or sales taxes. Levies being discussed by the GSLT include kerosene fuel, private jet fuel, luxury tickets and frequent flyers, which together could generate $19 billion to $164 billion a year, it estimates.

Well, sure, that won’t cause a spike in costs, right? How about the rest, which are

  • Fossil fuels
  • Financial transactions (why? What do they have to do with ‘climate change’? Oh, right, it’s a cash grab)
  • Carbon (yeah, the continuation of their old carbon tax idea)
  • Wealth (this would be on billionaires. To start with)
  • Crypto
  • Plastic

Strange how it’s always about the money (and the government control), never about practicing what you preach.

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Boston Mayor, Arizona Governor Declare They Will Defy Federal Law On Illegal Aliens

By William Teach November 20, 2024 – 6:45 am

There’s a number they should know: 1324

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu vows to defy Trump’s mass deportation push: ‘Protect our residents’

Boston’s Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu said in an interview on Sunday that her city won’t cooperate with the looming mass deportation operation from the incoming Trump administration — even as the region sees a number of illegal immigrants with criminal charges released back onto the streets.

Wu was asked in an interview with WCVB about the Trump administration’s plans to launch a mass deportation operation when it takes office in January, and was asked what Boston’s response will be.

“Elections have consequences, and the federal government is responsible for a certain set of actions, and cities, no individual city, can reverse or override some parts of that,” she said. “But what we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way, that we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and and having large scale economic impact.”

And then there’s

(Fox News) Arizona’s Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs says the border state, which voted for President-elect Trump in the presidential election this month, will not be aiding the incoming administration with its “misguided” plan to launch a mass deportation operation. (snip)

She then added, “What I will unequivocally say is that, as governor, I will not tolerate efforts that are part of misguided policies that harm our communities, that threaten our communities, that terrorize our communities, and Arizona will not take part in those.”

She said she’ll help on security the border, but, not on detaining illegals. They, and other Democrats who want to impede the federal government, might want to listen to Tom Holman

(Newsweek) The president-elect has vowed to launch the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in history when he reenters the White House next year. Speaking with local news station WCVB’s On the Record on Sunday, Wu said Boston is not “cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and having a large-scale economic impact.”

“Well, she’s not very smart, I’ll give her that,” Homan said. “President Trump is going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or governor doesn’t want public safety threats out of their communities?” (snip)

“So either she [Wu] helps us or she gets the hell out of the way, because we’re going to do it,” Homan said. “There’s a clear line here, and they can’t cross that line. I will suggest she reads Title 8, United States Code 1324 III, which says you can’t harbor or conceal an illegal alien from federal law enforcement officers.”

“They can not cooperate, but there are certain laws in place that they can’t cross, and I hope she doesn’t cross it,” he added.

Why do Democrats want to protect murderers, thieves, rapists, gang members, and terrorists? Those are the first ones the Trump admin plans to go after. And Holman sounds serious about prosecuting people for violating federal law.

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Nations Are Seeking Ways To Force Their Citizens To Pay For Climate Beliefs Of Elites

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 4:36 pm

Obviously, the elites flying on their expensive private jets to climate conferences aren’t going to pay

Nations are seeking ways to raise the big money needed to tackle climate change

Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the financial sort — can help them come up with the money that poorer nations need to cope with climate change.

It involves a complex package of grants, loans and private investment, and it’s becoming the major currency at annual United Nations climate talks known as COP29.

But poorer nations worry they’ll get the short end of the lever: not much money and plenty of debt.

Meanwhile, half a world away in Brazil, leaders of the 20 most powerful economies issued a statement that among other things gave support to strong financial aid for climate for poor nations and the use of leverage financial mechanisms. That was cheered by climate analysts and advocates.

Money is the key issue in Baku, where negotiators are working on a new amount of cash for developing nations to transition to clean energy, adapt to climate change and deal with weather disasters. It’ll replace the current goal of $100 billion annually — a goal set in 2009.

Let’s be honest: most of this money never makes it to the citizens of 3rd world shitholes developing nations: it ends up in the pockets of the rich, the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the well connected. Are these dirt poor citizens seeing any of the supposed benefits?

In these negotiations, rich potential donor nations have been reluctant to offer a starting figure to negotiate from. So Rafiyev said the conference presidency is putting the pressure on them, telling “the developed countries that the figure should be fair and ambitious, corresponding to the needs and priorities of the world.”

For all the money that’s been dumped into these developing nations they are still developing. None of it has really helped. Now it’s just money with no strings attached, because successful nations apparently owe these poor countries the money. Pretty nice scam, eh?

Analysts and activists said they were also worried because the G20 statement did not repeat the call for a transition away from fossil fuels, a hard-fought concession at last year’s climate talks.

Most of these 3rd world nations and 2nd world island nations would collapse back further without fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels tourism ends. Without it any exports and imports end. Have fun.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible suburban lawn sucking down water and causing the temperature to spike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on 21st Century toddlers discussing the climate (scam).

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Vulnerable Democrats Who Cozied Up To Trump And Won Give Advice To Party

By William Teach November 19, 2024 – 10:30 am

But, do they really think most of the wackadoodle Democrats will listen?

Vulnerable Democrats who won say party must follow their path

House Democratic front-liners have a message for leadership as the party grapples with what went wrong in this year’s elections: Follow our example.

While Democrats were generally wiped out on Election Day — losing the White House and Senate, and failing to flip control of the House — vulnerable Democrats in the lower chamber were a rare bright spot for the party.

Those lawmakers proved highly successful in keeping their seats in tough battleground districts, even in some places where President-elect Trump won by comfortable margins.

As Democratic leaders conduct an election postmortem, the front-liners are urging colleagues to take a page from their playbook, which features a heavy focus on kitchen-table economics while largely avoiding the culture-war battles that were a drag on the party on Nov. 5.

Oh, most are not going to stay away from the Crazy, especially when they are in utterly safe districts.

For Pappas, that meant an outsized focus on two economic concerns facing working-class families: unaffordable housing and the high cost of child care. Both are pressing problems not only in his district, he said, but all across the country. If Democrats want to appeal to more voters, he argued, they have to focus on the pocket-book anxieties that keep them up at night.

“In my district, abortion rights is still a top-testing issue, and people are deeply concerned about the direction of that,” he said. “But I think overall the economic anxiety needs to be front and center in terms of our agenda.”

Of course, the problem there is that Democrats tend to have the wrong answers on the economy, as we saw with Kamala’s “plan”. The fake price gouging may play well with the moonbat base, but, real people know it’s mule fritters. Real people know that the promise to build millions of homes is BS, considering how few EV chargers the government built and how no homes were connected to the Internet despite billions allocated.

“We hammered affordability just over and over and over — obsessively talked about lowering costs — and I outperformed Harris by 11 points in one of the toughest districts in the country,” [Rep Pat Ryan (D-NY)] continued. “So it’s all nothing new here.”

In other words, he sounded like Trump and Republicans. The question now is, how will he vote? In accordance with his campaign, or with the far left Democrats? How will the rest vote?

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